He doesn't state when filming begins, but I wonder if these pickups are for TDOS rather than TABA which is meant to commence filming in April/May.

Unless these guys are filming separately. Freeman doesn't go back till the end of May when BoT5A films. Sherlock starts filming season 3 in a couple of weeks so he can't be there until he's done. Unless Jed and the others are filming separately...

of dwarf boot camp to begin with, and that's about how long before they'll be coming back to do the Bot5A - with all their individual 'hero moments', so yeah, I expect they'd be wanting to be in even better shape than they were when they started filming AUJ.

Had no idea Freeman had "Sherlock" to film again, wonder if him and Cumberbatch will practise their lines for DOS between takes.

Completely forgot that the training took a good couple of weeks, wonder what it will feel like to suddenly be dwarves again for the cast.

Sorry If I've mislead anyone a case of putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5. :P

Ben is done. He's already done his lines I believe. I think all that's left for DoS is the film editing. I don't think they are doing any further pickups there. I could be wrong.

Sherlock starts filming in a couple of weeks. The sets are almost all the way built and MF said they start filming in March. That will take about 8 weeks. They return to NZ at the end of May for BoT5A.

I would imagine that PJ has to film those last scenes then work on film editing for film 3 also as that will air in July 2014. Not a lot of time for editing between promoting film 2 then only six months into the new year having to get ready for TABA.

Pj said in one interview they already have a rough cut of DoS in the can. They just have to tweak it I think.

Should be interesting to see how the guys do when they return. It's been a long while and it will be interesting to see how it goes. Freeman said at the BAFTA's that they don't consider The Hobbit "done" obviously at this point.